War is a Matter of Life and Death. How do you go about it? How do you train your troops? What moral codes do you follow? How do you keep your morale up? What tactics do you use in battle? What strategies do you follow? In Real Life, there's no easy answer. In fictionland, however, you can just ask the Big Book Of War. It can be Played for Laughs if a character tries to appear knowledgeable by quoting a rule, only to be corrected by someone else that he picked a completely wrong section of said document. A subtrope of the Great Big Book of Everything. Examples of Big Book of War include: